Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-04-17
SALVATION FOR ALL.
A Readable Article Well Fitted
to Calm and Strengthen the
Good Within Us.
Here's the Place to Get Your
Sunday Sermon, Though no
Desire is Felt
To Compete With the Gospel
Expounders of Any Greed or
Tenet in Miles.
NOTES OF INTEREST

from our Religious Editor-The Beauties of
Christian Immortality-The Char acter Of
The saviour.
Why does the world need q new
philosopher? Because sin has be-
clouded the intellect, warped the judg.
ment, cut the nerve of optimism and
extracted the strength from human
hope. The true beginning of a true
philosophy comes when the fact of sin
meets its foe in the presence of Jesus
Christ. Why does the world now, as
II did In the past, need a new inspi.
ration? Because out of human life
the motive power has been drawn by
sin and out of the sky OF human hope
the stars have been taken by sin.
How weak the efforts of man to rein.
spire the languid life Of the race. The
Prophet John saw their failure, and
he knew Jesus as the Lamb of God
VINO should take away the sin of the
world. The fact that He saves
from sin Is fundamental to any prom.
ise He may give to furnish motive
power TO men. Reform that does not
begin in salvation is sure 10 be a use-
less practice applied TOT deep seated
malady. God reveals bimss II as man 3
Saviour, as slain lamb. Self asser.
ton Is at the root Of all sin; humility
must meet and vanquishit it. Impurity
is in the life If all wrong. Innocence
must conquer 1t, But 1t must be sac
rificial and vicarious. A slain lamb IL
the lion Of the tribe OF judah In the
Revelations. The lamb that was slain
opens the mystic book. A church
ought TO keep this Iettered on her BAN
Der. Heavens gates are rot open to
armies with any other war cry. For
those who sing these sing the song Of
Moses and the Lamb, and
their robes have been made
white In the blood of the Lamb.
While it may be true that sin always
brings with 1t a.feeling Of restlessness,
Of heartache, ana a sense of shame,
this does not savea man from sin. As
he ceases, his conscience crushes out
the accusing voices which sgoDize
him and be only becomes more hard.
ened and more firmly bound to the
chains of his sins. Nor do we think
the threat of punishment the proper
saving power. No amount Of penal
ties will crush out sin from the heart
To-day we are finding out that the
punishments now in vogue in peni-
tentiaries do no, reclaim a criminal
and that the convict whose term OF
Imprisonment has expired rushes i'm.
mediately off to the commission OF
! fresh ofienses. A wise man once said
"tbat when criminal was found To
be incorrigible it was more beneficial
to hang him than to inoarcerate him,
because ifimprisoned his soul only be-
came blacker, while II hanged his soul
might be saved" As Eve was the
mother of transgression, so II was
through woman there was born the
child who was to be the Saviour Of
men. The only true salvation was,
therefore, wrought by Jesus. 1t is q
mistake to believe that salvation
means deliverance from some future
punishment-from something TO come
hereafter. While this may be true ts
a certain extent, IL is not all, for mar
must he saved from the sins and trans
gressions Of the lite on earth. Jesui
came to give wisdom to mans ignor
ance; atonement for his guilt, ant
strength for his weakness. He cam,
TO show what God was and what maj
might become. He was meek, lowly
pitiful and merclful and taught TO b,
so, was 20 God-like and great and
that this world was not the real worlt
or that this life the real life for man
The only way 10 reach the higher wa
to renounce the lower world. Mar
must be self-sscrifcing through the
wisdom and power Of God. People
should overcome their ignorance and
cease clinging to the pleasure aud low
Ing the delights Of sin. Ignorance,
however, is not the only stronghold oi
sin, for there is also guilt--a sense OF
unworthiness-wbich forms barrier
between the sinner and his God. BY
faith the sinner IL able to see the sacri'
fee made for him. BY faith he IL
enabledaso appropriate the blessings
Of heaven, and by faith he is re